Word: tough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last April, he promised that ECA would be run on a streamlined, businesslike basis. Last week he took a long step toward making that promise come true. Over the protests of offended career bureaucrats, he gave Comptroller Eric L. Kohler the go-ahead for a tough, continuous financial checkup...
Then Jim Duff fired point-blank at the Grundy strategists. "If they want to get tough," said Big Jim, "I'll show them that I can get tough, too. I'm not looking for a fight but I certainly am not going to sit down and do nothing . . . Let them start something and see the heads fall...
Czechs heard of Zapotocky's rise with no joy. Gottwald had been tough. Zapotocky looked tougher...
...Symphony Hall last week, President Karl T. Compton paused in his earnest degree-dispensing and beamed delightedly as Graduate Jules Samuel Levin stepped forward. Stocky young (20) Jules Levin of Miami Beach, Fla. is quite possibly the outstanding college graduate of 1948. In four years at notoriously tough Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he had racked up a perfect 5 (straight A's)- the first in M.I.T.'s 83-year history. His modest explanation: "I picked up a little momentum...
...Tough, tyrannical Sewell Lee Avery had lost "the first round, but he did not seem to know it; although Montgomery Ward's board of directors had knocked him down a peg and made President Wilbur Norton day-to-day boss (TIME, May 31), Chairman Avery went on as if nothing had happened. Last week the second-round bell sounded...